neofan
/ˈniːəʊfæn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A newcomer to science fiction; a fan who is extremely new and inexperienced with the genre; a beginner.
Dated; Slang
Example Sentences
- "COMING NEXT ISH: A department devoted to the BNF of tomorrow. 'Twill be the neofan of today who is the Tucker or Laney of tomorrow. So QUANDRY, the BNZ of tomorrow, will bring you biografies^([sic]) of lesser known fen."
- "I heard a couple of neofans boasting that they were going to have breakfast with him!"
- "Huzzah! Hopefully we'll get some fans, neo-fans and even fanlings to join us."
- "For a while there, if three fans were swapping apazines, it’s a good bet that I was one of them. Not that I set a record for number of apas. Bruce Pelz, Robert Lichtman and a few other fans had made “omniapan-ism” fashionable among impressionable neofen like me. Bruce was not only in a lot of groups, but it seemed like he was Official Editor of half of them."